The team at Heartlab Inc. first saw the need as they dealt with health care providers. As more and more aspects of their operations went digital – billing, patient records and imaging – they were swamped with data, and storing it all was a huge logistical and financial challenge.

The servers they were using were not well-suited for long-term data storage, and they consumed enormous amounts of energy, at great cost. The problem wasn’t unique to health care, either: All kinds of businesses, large and small, were struggling with this.

So after selling Heartlab to the Belgian giant Agfa in 2005, former CEO Robert Petrocelli and others started a new company in 2007 to focus on efficient, lower-cost storage. And this month the firm, greenBytes, based in the Hopkinton Industrial Park, launched its first product.

Full Story: Making data storage more efficient and affordable Source: Providence Business News, April 26th, 2009 Author: Marion Davis Added on April 30th, 2009 at 9:56 am, by Matt Mikula